| iy ft Vol. 2, Issue No. 43 Council to invite Manin . Motion to travel the Yellowhead TERRACE — The municipal «council will- contact the Rick Hanson organization to en- courage the circum-- navigating wheeler to take the northern route through B.C. at the end of his cross-Canada journey. Ald.Bob Jack- man put forward a suc- | cessful motion at the Oct. 14 council meeting in hopes that Hanson could be convinced to take Highway 16 from . & Edmonton to Prince Rupert and ferry from there to the Lower Mainland. “It will also give him a chance to check out the wheelchair access on the B.C. Fer- ries,’”?’ Jackman added, in reference to the Crown Corporation’s lethargic performance in equipping their. vessels for physically disabled - passengers. Terrace has also responded to a fund- raising challenge ‘from the City of Prince George. The local coun- cil has authorized the establishment of an ac- count at the Royal Bank’s Terrace branch to receive donations to the Man. in Motion’s spinal cord research fund. The account will be opened by the City with a donation of $1 per municipal employee, and the employees and members of the general public will be encour- aged to make further donations. WATER IMPROVEMENTS PROCEED Funding has been ap- proved by Terrace coun- cil for work to begin on interconnection of the city’s gravity water sup- ply. At the Oct. 14 meeting a resolution released $65,924 from the municipal water ac- count for capital works to proceed immediately. Priority items will be clearing of the main be- continued on page 2 Fire Chief foraday = Timothy Laurle, Grade 1 student at Kiti K’ Shan Primary School, sits proudly in a fire truck on his way to meat the Terrace fire chief. Laurie was the Terrace winner of the Fire Chief for a Day contest which was sponsored by McDonaid's‘and the local fire department. The contest was the climax to Fire Prevention Week and the “Get Out Alive” program. See more pictures page 12. Danlete Berquist photo. Legislative Library, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4 A final analysis TERRACE — The pro- | vincial election today will determine both the style and substance of B.C. government and politics from now until the beginning of the 1990’s, and it would be difficult to exaggerate the impact that the elec- tors’ decision will have on individual lives and the social and economic direction of B.C. for the next four years. Voters would be well-advised to conduct a strong internal dialogue to clarify their personal convictions and hopes for the collective welfare of B.C. society before making the critical mark on that innocuous-looking piece of paper in the polling place. The all-candidates forum hosted by the Ter- race Jaycees Oct. 16 at the REM Lee Theatre revealed no major sur- _prises from any of the four candidates for the Skeena riding. The meeting was attended by about 200 local constit- uents, and began with a Inside Business Guide 10 Church Directory 14 Classified Ads 22 Coming Events 18 Comics 21 Crossword 21 Dining Directory 16 Entertalnment 17 Horoscope 20 Letters 14, 15, 16, 20 Opinions Sports ‘ Q Stork Report 16 Talk of the Town § Outside Date Hi Lo Prec. Oe. 13 10 7 26mm Ocl.14 13 10 trace Oct. 15 14. «6B none i aay Hg stm keena candidates (Oct 8 124mm Skeena candidates . mm On Oct. 16 a substantial number of local voters assembled In the REM Lee Theatre to sub- Forecast: Continuing mit questions to the four candidates for Skeena in the provincial election. The four men mainiy cloudy with running for MLA are (left to right} Independent candidate Gordon Sebastian, Social Credit afternoon highs of 10 candidate Dave Parker, New Democratic Party Incumbent Frank Howard, and Liberal can- and overnight lows of 4. didate William Hayes. a! Ses Ptatate®, tofu Patel, = satel atstetsts oeceaeesaes socotnercen ee SSS 24% % + _ 50 CENTS successful call for admis- sion of questions from the floor. Moderator Andrew Lee conceded, with the assent of the candidates, and the original format, which had allowed only written questions, was amended. The ten-minute open- ing statements were substantially repetitions of previously given posi- tions, After a brief recess the candidates returned to the stage and a line of questioners formed behind the microphone. During: the one-hour grilling that followed, the audience held a tone of critical civility, punctuated” by applause, whistles, and.- leavening of catcalls;. heckling and laughter. In the current cam- paigns no issue has received more attention and fewer straight answers than aboriginal land claims. All the can- didates have agreed in one way or another that the claims must be dealt with, but the general public continues to suf- fer from lack of a detail- ed scenario as to how the dealings will proceed. Liberal candidate William Hayes has asserted that claims negotiations have to in- volve all affected parties federally, provincially and regiohally, and he has largely brushed aside proposals for industrial — development and alloca- tion of lands as being academic until the claims are settled. Social Credit candidate Dave Parker has assessed the provin- cial government’s role in the negotiations as being a “facilitator’’ to bring the federal government and the native interests together; this reflects the position of the Social Credit aan provincial; oJ titel CLA 24° eneneatatae patel ae “, 4. a +! tet cy RRR sar ;